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mittimus

[mit-uh-muh s]
noun, plural mit·ti·mus·es. Law.
  1. a warrant of commitment to prison.
  2. a writ for removing a suit or a record from one court to another.
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Origin of mittimus

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin: we send, first word of such a writ; see remit
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Examples from the Web for mittimus

Historical Examples

  • He would not show us that, but caused a mittimus to be made, which mentioned that we "were to have had a meeting."

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    George Fox

  • With this mittimus he delivered us to the constables to convey us to Leicester jail.

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  • I still called to have the mittimus read; for that signified the cause of my commitment.

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  • “Then,” said he, “I must commit you;” and ordered his clerk to make a mittimus.

  • He never once took his eyes off Palmer as he read the mittimus.

British Dictionary definitions for mittimus

mittimus

noun plural -muses
  1. law a warrant of commitment to prison or a command to a jailer directing him to hold someone in prison
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Word Origin

C15: from Latin: we send, the first word of such a command
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